Die Frist ist um, und wiederum verstrichen sind sieben Jahr, the Maestro quoted The Flying Dutchman, as he told of his career and wanderings, explaining that the number seven had significantly recurred in his life several times.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

There are nearly 20, 000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher.

If the shooter rolls one of these numbers on the come-out roll, this establishes the " point "-to " pass " or " win ", the point number must be rolled again before a seven.

If the shooter rolls any seven before repeating the point number ( a " seven-out "), the Pass line loses and the dice pass to a new shooter for the next round.

The player can tell the dealer that they want their odds working, such that if the shooter rolls a number that matches the come point, the odds bet will win along with the come bet, and if a seven is rolled, both lose.

The song peaked at number seven in New Zealand and reached the top 20 in Australia.

The apparent contradiction between the fact that there can be only seven protoctists but also a vast number of archangels to be promoted to their order is problematic.

The commonest modern explanation is that the number seven is not meant to be taken literally, but has a principally numerological significance.

A tradition exists among some families to serve twelve different dishes at Wigilia symbolizing the Twelve Apostles, or perhaps, an odd number of dishes for good luck ( usually five, seven, or nine ).

It also ranks first in High School Counselor Rankings as of 2012. The college ranks number seven in The Wall Street Journals ranking of top feeder schools.

Since the beginning of the second Intifada the DFLP has carried out a number of shooting attacks against Israeli targets, such as the 25 August 2001 attack on a military base in Gaza that killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others.

So Irenaeus tells of the system of Simon Magus, of the system of Menander, of the system of Saturninus, in which the number of these angels is reckoned as seven, and of the system of Carpocrates.

It includes the seven Deuterocanonical Books which are generally rejected by Protestants and a small number of other books that are in neither Western canon.

The rules do not specify a minimum number of players for a match to take place, but most competitions have some local ruling on this, with seven players being a common minimum.

The Greek Army also fielded seven divisions, but, having the initiative, concentrated all seven against VIII Corps, leaving only a number of independent battalions of scarcely divisional strength in the Epirus front.

The average litter size for Syrian hamsters is about seven pups, but can be as great as 24, which is the maximum number of pups that can be contained in the uterus.

The repeater doubled the possible number of circuits on the cable, and although it failed after only five months, its replacement worked for seven years.

" The number of players per side was reduced to seven, and the games now organized into thirty-minute halves.

In later tradition the number of icons of Mary attributed to Luke would greatly multiply ; the Salus Populi Romani, the Theotokos of Vladimir, the Theotokos Iverskaya of Mount Athos, the Theotokos of Tikhvin, the Theotokos of Smolensk and the Black Madonna of Częstochowa are examples, and another is in the cathedral on St Thomas Mount, which is believed to be one of the seven painted by St. Luke the Evangelist and brought to India by St. Thomas.

Thurstone argued for a model of intelligence that included seven unrelated factors ( verbal comprehension, word fluency, number facility, spatial visualization, associative memory, perceptual speed, reasoning, and induction ).

Nevertheless, irradiated foods that fall within the single category ; ' dried aromatic herbs, spices and vegetable seasonings ' are permitted presently in all 27 member states of the European Community and seven countries ( Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom ) also maintain a number of national regulations that allow other irradiated foods to be marketed as long as they comply with Directvie 1999 / 2 / EC.

Jigoro Kano had an academic upbringing and, from the age of seven, he studied English, and the under a number of tutors.

He made his debut, wearing Keegan's number seven shirt, on 13 August 1977 in the season opener at Wembley, in the Charity Shield against Manchester United.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.

He was in and out of Mount Alto Hospital for veterans any number of times.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.

As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.

The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

Net income was $2,557,111, or $3.11 per share on 821,220 common shares currently outstanding, as compared to $2,323,867 or $2.82 per share in 1959, adjusted to the same number of shares.

As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

Rather the monthly total consumption was divided and charged on the basis of number of rooms and persons in the family.

The railroads have responded by adding 20,000 more box cars with doors 12' or wider for forklift unloading ( a 21% increase while the total number of box cars was falling 6% ) and by cutting their freight rates twice on lumber shipped in heavily loaded cars.

An unusual increase in the number of bronchial arteries present within the substance of the lung was noted.

It seems clear, from the counter-balanced shape of the series of arrows in Figure 5 that there was about an equal number of early and late Onsets and Completions for the 34 girls.

There was a significantly greater number in this group who reported a desk as being in a tilted position while a tennis ball resting on it remained stationary on the incline.

The reason for the value of this procedure was simply that the applicants were tested `` at work '' in different situations by the judgment of a number of experts who could see how the salesmen conducted themselves with different, but typical restaurant owners and managers.

He played a number of typical situations before observers, other supervisors who kept notes and then explained to him in detail what he did they thought was wrong.

As the number of reported freight car loadings increased, this was taken to indicate increased industrial activity, and consequently increased stock earnings, implying fatter dividends, and implying therefore increased stock market prices.

This Europeanization of the law was made explicit by a number of 19th century scholars.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.